University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music adapted and thrived in a changing music world

Corky Hale is a classically trained musician who got started in show business in 1950s

In rare glimpse behind the scenes, rehearsal videos show Jackson working to achieve the kind of polished entertainment fans around the world had come to expect from him

Academy Award winner Hillary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in film directed by Mira Nair

Singer, pianist and actor is one of today's top interpreters of the Great American Songbook

Disposal company in San Francisco for more than 15 years has invited selected artists to create works of art out of trash San Franciscans throw away

Award-winning trumpeter says he has always dreamed of leading his own big band - a style he believes has fallen out of favor with aspiring jazz musicians

The printing process known as lithography began in Germany and then spread to America, where brightly colored printing transformed popular culture

'This Is It' double CD release coincides with release of movie with same name; Brown appeared at radio station concert in New Jersey October 27

Filmmaker Spike Jonze Brings "Wild Things" Onto Large Screen

Jazz meets pop on Joe McBride’s new album, 'Lookin’ For A Change'

Brooks to perform in Las Vegas on weekends beginning in December; Anka co-wrote Michael Jackson's "I Never Heard" found on CD released October 12

Comedy co-starring Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn centers around four couples who go on South Pacific holiday at resort offering relationship repair sessions

For the past two years, a lifelike dinosaur show has toured Australia, Europe, US

Former US secretary of state used brooches as diplomatic tool

Movie examines life in America for a Palestinian mother and son

Movie is about middle-aged university professor grappling with a seemingly endless stream of moral choices

Assistant says Penn died at his home in New York, no cause given

Throughout American history, US heads of state have owned dogs and some became celebrities 

The current Broadway revival of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is but one example of the bard's staying power with U.S. audiences.

New film explores the causes of the US economic crisis and questions the morality of capitalism 

In 1872, the U.S. Congress established Yellowstone National Park as the first land reserved by a government to be relatively free of human development and pollution